Wednesday, June 27, 2007

Does Facebook mean the death of Blogger?

Admittedly, I never update this blog anymore for four main reasons.

1. School / Work.

With more responsibility at work, plus with homework demands (when I'm in school), I'm finding that I have less and less time to actually sit down to pound out a blog entry. Or with the time I DO have, I prefer to work around the home rather than type up an entry.


2. Lack on interest / motivation.

You grow old and you do less crazy shit. For a blog that was DEDICATED to crazy shit performed by me and my friends, this may just create the death blow for this site. Notwithstanding my recent "homeless drunk" episode with the Blairs a few weeks ago, there are fewer and fewer "crazy stories" that come out of situations where we drink a case of Beer in Kelsey's living room.

Thus, with a lack of great content, it's only long periods of boredom (or hot button issues) that push me to write on here any more.


3. Does anyone read this?

I'm not tech savvy enough to include a feature that reports "you're blog was viewed X number of times this month". Without any feed back from people -- hell, even the fact that I have to DIRECT people to read this site -- I'm not too worried about not publishing anything because I know that no one is missing it.


4. Facebook.com

Facebook is in no ways a direct competitor to Blogger. But yet it IS a time-waster kind of site and that's why I no longer really blog. Trying to find your best friend from grade 2? Well...you can do that with Facebook whereas it's unlikely that same person will somehow stumble across your blog.

And when you consider that just today I gave a virtual dropkick to someone's head today in Facebook, that's a heck of a lot more fun than spending X minutes pounding out a blog entry.

1 Comments:

At 12:09 a.m., Blogger dingobear said...

I think Facebook (and to some extent, MySpace) is definitely usurping Blogger. Traffic over at starfish and waffles has been down since Facebook hit critical mass ...

 

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